Journal article
Is there a language of terrorists? A comparative manifesto analysis
- Abstract:
- Previous research has shown that identity fusion can motivate violent self-sacrifice when the group is threatened. In this study we conducted an ethnographic content analysis of fifteen manifestos – expressing varied levels of extremism – to examine whether fusion and other relevant variables can be reliably identified and if the predictions of the fusion-plus-threat model are supported. Our findings indicate that linguistic proxies for identity fusion combined with mediating and moderating variables such as existential threat narratives, violence-condoning group norms and dehumanizing vocabulary, can be reliably identified and are more prevalent in the documents of would-be terrorists. This method may contribute to predicting the likelihood that individuals will engage in acts of violent extremism.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Version of record, pdf, 2.8MB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/1057610X.2022.2109244
Authors
+ European Commission
More from this funder
- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/00k4n6c32
- Grant:
- 694986
+ Economic and Social Research Council
More from this funder
- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/03n0ht308
- Grant:
- ES/I005455/1
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Studies in Conflict and Terrorism More from this journal
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 601–628
- Publication date:
- 2022-08-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-07-27
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1521-0731
- ISSN:
-
1057-610X
- Language:
-
English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
1273134
- Local pid:
-
pubs:1273134
- Deposit date:
-
2022-08-09
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Ebner et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2022
- Rights statement:
- © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record